# Inspired by the beauty and diversity of our New Zealand marine environment and by discovering that crochet was the ideal medium to replicate the beauty and complexity of our unique marine life.
# Inspired by the work of mathematician Daina Taimina in creating hyperbolic shapes with crochet, I couldn’t wait to crochet the kelp, sea slugs, sea anemones, nudibranchs and flat worms that live in our marine menagerie. In New Zealand we have a unique and vulnerable underwater environment teeming with life.
That is why I called the project ‘Seagardens Aotearoa’. (Aotearoa is the Maori name for New Zealand).
Seagardens Aotearoa is not an exhibition, it is a living growing installation that is nurtured by every individual taking part and making a piece of crochet to add to our ‘marine menagerie’. We encourage everyone at any venue we visit to take part by crocheting a few stitches to add to our ‘communal sponge’, thus reinforcing the concept of community that is so basic to our existance on this planet!
